The Great Nicobar development project’s mitigation plan oversimplifies ecological restoration, reducing it to tree-planting ...

Stalin, for example, embraced the claims of Trofim Lysenko that fitted the Soviet ideology as opposed to the views of Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, a highly competent geneticist. Vavilov did ...

A lanky fellow with a fanatic’s fiery eyes, Geneticist Trofim Lysenko was Stalin’s favorite scientist. Thirteen years ago, he blossomed before the world as the self-taught despot of Soviet ...

From the 1930s to the mid-1950s, the Soviet regime had been virulently hostile to genetics, driven by the ideas and ambition of the agronomist Trofim Lysenko, a favourite of the country’s then ...

The biography begins with the 1905 revolution in Moscow, when Vavilov, the grandson of a Russian serf and the son of a man who rose from extremely humble beginnings to become a wealthy textile ...

In reality, Vavilov had been arrested by the NKVD on charges of spying. His international reputation had told against him and a rival, Trofim Lysenko, had denounced him for ‘wrecking activity in ...

This included altering the direction of rivers and reorganizing forests into industrial zones. The ideologist behind the plan, Trofim Lysenko, was a charlatan pretending to have invented plantation ...